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...million remake of Desperate Hours, the 1955 Humphrey Bogart classic. One ominous sign: the film's director is Michael Cimino, the noted flopmeister, and its star is Mickey Rourke, no big draw. Uh-oh: Has Dino done it again? The title of another forthcoming De Laurentiis production seems to convey his message to anyone who doubts his sheer chutzpah and tenacity: Over My Dead Body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Of His Own Dubious Epic | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Sheila Allen, as Cymbeline's evil second wife, is a mere caricature who tries to convey malice by flinging her arms into the air at regular intervals...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Huntington Shreds Shakespeare's Cymbeline | 3/20/1990 | See Source »

...hope that the above information will convey to your readers that Harvard Law School does indeed present a wide range of options for graduates and a solid commitment to those who choose to take the road of public service. N. June Thompson Director, Career Service

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School & Public Service | 2/27/1990 | See Source »

Taken together, all five books convey a deep distrust of the decade just past. The poet Robert Lowell once wrote in an ode to a friend, "Yet really we had the same life, the generic one/ our generation offered." In much the same way, these tales of the 1980s tend to merge into one generic portrait of vanity, ego and greed. Historians may come to see the '80s in a kinder and more diverse light, but the image of the decade in these books is unquestionably the prevailing one today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bashing Greed for Fun and Profit | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

COURSES of Instruction includes at least one meaningful offering this term: Women's Studies 10b, "Current Problems in Feminist Theory." If the course title itself doesn't particularly convey excitement, the first class meeting decidedly did. The instructor, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Alice Jardine, is the only tenured member of Harvard's faculty with whom I have ever looked out of classroom windows on to the world...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Scenes From the Class Struggle | 2/6/1990 | See Source »

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